Programme of the 18th International Family Congress
11.00 - 15.00.- Registration of Participants
16.00 - 16.30.- Opening Act
Public Officials.
16.30 - 17.30.- Opening Conference - "Family, School of Human Rights".
Antonio Monserrat Quintana, Member of General Council of the Judiciary of Spain.
17.30 - 18.15.- Coffee Break
18.15 - 19.45.- Panel 1 "The Family and Public Opinion"
Armando Fumagalli, Lecturer and Director, Master’s Degree, Catholic University of Milan.
Mª Angeles Cabrera, Reader. University of Málaga.
Antonio Fernández-Galiano, CEO, Unidad Editorial.
Lucy Molinar, Minister of Education, Panama.
Moderator: Julián Quirós, Editor, Las Provincias.
9.45 - 11.45.- Roundtable "Experiences in Family Enrichment around the World"
Family Enrichment Leaders from Kenya, Australia, D. R. of Congo, USA, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Philippines, India, Bolivia, Ecuador.
11.45 - 12.30.- Coffee Break
12.30 - 14.00.- Panel 2 "The Family in the Political Agenda"
Dainius Kreivys, Minister of Economy, Lithuania.
Liliana Negre, Senator, Argentina.
Arantza Quiroga, President, Basque Parliament.
Juan Cotino, Vice-President, Regional Government of Valencia.
Moderator: Ana Aznar, Editor, Hacer Familia.
14.00 - 16.00.- Lunch
16.00 - 17.30.- Panel 3 "The Family in the Civil Society and in the International Bodies"
Alfonso de Salas, Secretary of the Steering Committee on Human Rights, Council of Europe.
Stephane Buffetaut, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee.
Ignacio Socías, Director of The Family Watch.
Moderator: Michael Schwarz, Chairman, Vienna NGO Committee on the Family.
17.30 - 18.15.- Coffee Break
18.15 - 19.15.- Closing Conference. "Why Marriage Matters: a View from the Social Sciences”
W. Bradford Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage
Project at the University of Virginia.
19.15 - 19.45.- Closing Act
